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Free Transit in Ottawa
Fighting Against Climate Change and for Social Justice Ottawa’s public transit system has many shortcomings. Too often buses are congested and/or infrequent. Few stops have shelters and many users face lengthy … Keep reading »
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Peacemakers and Academics Facing Prison in Turkey
As cultural workers, unionists and academics working in Toronto and Canada, we strongly condemn the continuing harassment and sentencing of academics and students charged by the Turkish state with “propagandizing … Keep reading »
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From Liberal ‘Ideology’ to Massive Cuts: Ford’s Education Policy for Ontario
Education Minister Lisa Thompson walked up to the podium at the Ontario Science Centre on Friday to tell Ontarians about her plan for education. But first, she took a shot … Keep reading »
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Rethinking Approaches to Climate Change
Climate change is the most visible, most threatening expression of a larger, planetary ecological crisis, the result of an economic system (capitalism) with an inherent growth and profit dynamic which ensures that the exploitation of natural resources exceeds the carrying capacity of nature. Keep reading »
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Ukraine: An Election for the Oligarchs
Volodymyr Ishchenko on hopes and prospects for Ukraine’s political future. Keep reading »
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Working Women: Should We Be Combatting Sexism to Stimulate Economic Growth?
In the run-up to International Women’s Day, it was good to see Christine Lagarde highlight the problems of sexism in the global economy. Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary … Keep reading »
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An Ecosocialist Green New Deal: Guiding Principles
Humankind has reached a moment of existential crisis. Human activity is causing disastrous climate disruption and Earth’s sixth mass extinction event, triggering critical losses of biodiversity. We are already locked … Keep reading »
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Searching for New Forms of Struggle
Joao Pedro Stédile Reports on the Latin America Left from the International People’s Assembly. Keep reading »
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Labour in the Age of Duterte: The Pacific Plaza Strike
Whatever may be the conclusion of the strike, there is little doubt that the practice of contractualization, which has done so much damage to labour in the Philippines, is facing a mortal challenge from its victims. Keep reading »
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The New Politics of Disablement: The Contribution of Mike Oliver
Michael Oliver (3 February 1945 to 2 March 2019) was a British academic, author, and disability rights activist. He was Emeritus Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Greenwich. … Keep reading »
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Exterminators-in-Chief: Trudeau, Bolsonaro, et al, and Informed Consent
I read the Canadian news today: “Pipeline expansion should be approved: regulator.” Regulators ignorantly, negligently, criminally, and in contempt of life, yet again gave the go-ahead to money over incontestable science. Liberal democratic Canada is in league with Brazil’s military dictatorship and the Lima Group. Keep reading »
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A More Dangerous World: The Nuclear Arms Race, the INF Treaty and Canada
On October 20, 2018, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the bilateral Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) with Russia. The INF was signed by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan and former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev in December 1987. Keep reading »